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**cabonuserollyo** · 08-09-2011, 10:35 PM

That's one good looking Melanesian right there.

Dominicanboy - that pretty much what I say, if you call those Americans Black, then you use another definition than one based on colour. I would even go so far as to call Albinos white, if colour is the sole definition of who is "Black" and who isn't. Now, I don't like those racial labels at all, but I don't agree that you can say that Melanesians and Australians are "Black" and state that skin colour/appearance ONLY is the reason why they are black, and then also include lighter people as black. Unless you're using a different definition for your world wide inclusive use of Black, and another cultural definition altogether for people in the USA, or other diaspora. If you use the word "black" literally, then it's not a racial term, but just a word which describes someone who looks black-ish. That would include a very tanned Khmer person too, in some cases, or some South Indians. Who sometimes magically would turn non-black if they stayed indoors for some time!

Ps. obviously, locally people can use the term "black" fro aborigines, and "white" for Anglos, just like Russians can use the word "black" for Caucasians, and "white" for themselves.

08-09-2011, 10:35 PM	#15
cabonuserollyo Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 508 Senior Member	That's one good looking Melanesian right there. Dominicanboy - that pretty much what I say, if you call those Americans Black, then you use another definition than one based on colour. I would even go so far as to call Albinos white, if colour is the sole definition of who is "Black" and who isn't. Now, I don't like those racial labels at all, but I don't agree that you can say that Melanesians and Australians are "Black" and state that skin colour/appearance ONLY is the reason why they are black, and then also include lighter people as black. Unless you're using a different definition for your world wide inclusive use of Black, and another cultural definition altogether for people in the USA, or other diaspora. If you use the word "black" literally, then it's not a racial term, but just a word which describes someone who looks black-ish. That would include a very tanned Khmer person too, in some cases, or some South Indians. Who sometimes magically would turn non-black if they stayed indoors for some time! Ps. obviously, locally people can use the term "black" fro aborigines, and "white" for Anglos, just like Russians can use the word "black" for Caucasians, and "white" for themselves.
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